Whispering Poems

Chapter 1814 Flying Knife and Flying Cards

"Besides the core, do other things in the circus that are 'infected' need to be dealt with?"

Shad asked again, and Tifa thought for a while:
"If they don't move, we don't have to worry about it. Let's go to the fortune teller. The lady told us to focus on this matter. I don't know if it was foreseen. The core of the circus's arrival can have a huge impact on subsequent events. After all It's a fortuneteller, maybe he knows something."

Xia De suspected that the great witch of time had foreseen the return of Ruster Edwards.

The tiger's body was set alight on the spot, and after making sure it was completely burnt, the maids returned to the circus camp with Shad.

A brief trip away from camp and back again, not much has changed here.The only thing worth noting is that the magician who was practicing dart throwing on the low wooden stage just now turned his head 180 degrees to face behind him, so he is practicing dart throwing with his back to the target in a difficult posture.

As for the originally hanging target, it turned into a living person whose body and limbs were nailed by fifteen steel nails. From the looks of it, he seemed to be an apprentice magician.

The boy, who looked no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, stood on his left foot and lifted his right foot up, with a red apple fixed on his right foot, two hands, and a red apple on top of his head.His eyelids were held up by matchsticks and he couldn't close his mouth, his mouth was sewn up with thin thread and he couldn't speak. At this moment, he could only look at the magician with his head turned back in horror. The boy had already had several throwing knives stuck in him, and he happened to avoid them all. hit the nail on the head.

On Thursday morning, the weather outside the city was fine, and all this happened under the bright sun, but except for Shad and the girls behind him, the rest of the camp seemed to be unable to see the scene in front of them.Even if the sun is slightly exposed, it can make people feel chills on the back.

The weird magician didn't provoke the group, but Shade stopped.He looked at Tifa, and the brunette's big eyes looked at him too:

"You decide."

She lowered her voice slightly:
"Owner."

The girls behind Tifa laughed again, and "she" smiled gently in Shade's ear, and Shade felt a little red at the base of his ears.But he didn't walk over immediately, but asked Rast who was floating aside:

"Should we save him?"

The little girl blinked at him and thought for a moment:
"Save him! Save him!"

"why?"

"Because Gilles will compliment me!"

From this point of view, apart from the living members of the Edwards family, there were also people who were on Shad's side among the dead Edwards.

Xia De told the maids not to do anything, he walked to the high platform and jumped on it.There are two worlds above and below the wooden stage. After stepping on the stage, it seems that the whole world is covered with a layer of gray filter, and the coldness immediately rushes from the soles of the feet to the chest.But Xia De also felt that ordinary people would not be able to notice what happened on the stage as long as it didn't make too much noise, but because of this, it was impossible for him to completely let go of his hands and feet like he was fighting with the tiger just now. .

The magician, who was about to throw the throwing knife, did not move his body at the moment, turned his head 180 degrees back to its original position, and looked at Xia De.The seven orifices of his face were bleeding, and the malice that accompanies the gaze at that moment even made Xia De feel the pain of the knife tip piercing his skin.

The magician asked in a hoarse voice:

"Do you want to try it too?"

"What rules?"

Xia De asked calmly.

"The target is the apple. Three times, if you hit all the targets, you win. If you lose, leave it to me as an apprentice or a target."

The magician replied, Xia De nodded and took a step forward, and the wooden stage made a loud creaking sound.

Suddenly, the magician threw the flying knife at Xia De's eyebrows, but Xia De caught it casually. He held the heavy flying knife in his hand and looked at the young man twenty steps away. On the latter's face, A complex look of panic, pleading, and despair was mixed together.

Although the apple is not that big, if it is only this distance, even if it is twice as far away, it is impossible for Xia De to miss the target.

"Apprentice or target."

Glancing at the shape of the magician whose head was temporarily restored to normal, Xia De also understood that this place, like the [Fishbone Pirate Ship] he encountered with Leizia, has a tendency to assimilate normal people into a part of himself.

"Okay. But if I win, I want this."

He pointed at the young man who was the target, and the magician nodded after thinking for a few seconds:
"can."

His head turned 180 degrees again, and it was back again.Then he walked away from the red line pasted on the stage and gave up his position to Xia De.

As Xia De walked over, he pinched the tip of the knife with his hand and made a gesture of throwing it, but stopped again:
"Can I use the throwing knife?"

There was something deep in his eyes, and Tifa, who was watching from the audience, smiled. She knew what Shade was going to do.The ordinary people in the camp were also attracted here at this time. Of course, they couldn't see the actual situation clearly. They only thought that the young people from outside wanted to challenge the magician of the circus.People booed one after another, completely unaware that the target was a living person.

"Throwing knives are too easy, I prefer more challenging ones. How about flipping cards?"

The frightened expression on the face of the young man on the target subsided a little. If it was a card, at least he would not be hurt.The idle people who came to watch from the audience applauded loudly. They were very happy to see such an interesting thing without spending money.

Turning his head towards the magician behind him, he nodded again.

Xia De smiled, took out his deck of cards, flipped over the first card and threw it away, the cards swirled out in the air parallel to the ground.But immediately another silver glow appeared, and the magician threw a throwing knife at Shade's cards.

"I see."

The flying knife was extremely fast, it flew smoothly over the cards thrown by Xia De, and then broke into two pieces, then fell to the bottom of the stage with a clatter, and even hit the spectators, but they didn't pay attention at all.

The card pierced the apple of the target's right hand, Shade's first card hit, and the crowd cheered loudly—including Miss Ruster Edwards, who sang that it was more fun than throwing knives.

Xia De didn't speak, and the second card was already out of his hand.Almost at the same time, the second flying knife flew sideways——

Clang!Clang!Clang!Clang!
This time the flying knife was completely different from the previous one. Sparks were even rubbed off after hitting the spinning cards, which drew cheers and applause from the crowd again.

Xia De was really curious about what these ordinary people saw.

Xia De, who controlled [Initiation·Darkness], felt a strong force, trying to deflect the flying direction of the cards.But for Xia De, these Impermanence cards are almost as easy to control as hands and feet. In the end, the cards that kept clanging and colliding with the flying knife still hit the apple on the boy's left hand, and the flying knife that was knocked away pierced into the apple. Target boy's right arm became another "decoration" on his body.

"it is good!"

"fantastic!"

"Again!"

"Let's use cards in the circus next time!"

"Refund!"

"not enough!"

Amid the chaotic booing of people, Xia De pinched the third card and glanced aside:
"Ok?"

I saw that the magician with his head turned back had already raised his arms, with eight shining throwing knives between his fingers, and he was about to throw.He was also looking at Shad, obviously waiting for Shad to strike first.

Even Xia De, who knew he was cheating, still couldn't help being surprised at this moment:
"Even if you want to play tricks, you should at least cover it up."

As he spoke, the third card in his hand flew out.In an instant, eight flying knives flew from the side, turned into silver lights and fought against the cards together, and Xia De, who just made the cards fly smoothly as if they were really thrown, finally manipulated the cards to draw in the air Out of a complex "8" shape.

So the cards flew in front, and the eight flying knives quickly caught up behind them.They relied on the superiority of numbers to block the way of the cards, so the cards flew to a higher place, colliding with the flying knives at the top of their heads.

All of a sudden, amidst the cheers and cheers of the people, the cards above the stage and the throwing knives clanged together, and the girl's soul clapped excitedly. She looked very happy. Tifa and the other two The maid had a smile on her face, and even the boy who had turned into a target couldn't help staring at this amazing scene with wide eyes. Although he couldn't help but want to.

The flying knives kept colliding with the cards, and the cards with indestructible properties were still slightly better in the end, and it was clear that Xia De's ability to control cards was stronger.After a 5-minute confrontation, the card found the right moment, surrounded by eight flying knives, and pierced the red apple on the target boy's head. Germany's three throws all hit the target.

"it is good!"

There was another round of applause and cheers from the audience. People who had seen the wonderful performance praised the strange young people loudly, and some even threw coins on the stage.In order to verify whether the people in the audience would automatically filter out any unreasonable things, Xia De even used spells to draw coins and fly them into his pockets. Sure enough, no one was puzzled by this.

"I won."

Xia De said to the magician, and with a wave of his hand, the three cards flew back into his hand.Then, he pointed to the target boy with a happy face:

"According to the agreement, he belongs to me!"

The magician with his head facing back and bleeding from his orifices nodded, left the stage, sat down on a bench under the sun on the side of the stage, bowed his head and stopped moving, as if he had been hit.

Xia De breathed a sigh of relief, first let the gathered crowd disperse, and told everyone that he would not stay in the circus, and then he was about to help the boy who was still nailed there to heal his wounds, when he suddenly saw three of the four apples, three of them just now. The apple inserted by the card rotted and turned black, and the last intact apple turned into a bright golden color and rolled to his feet with a gurgle.

(End of this chapter)